Tech Week In Review
2001.04.16 - 2001.04.22
A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every Sunday.

General IT
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Napster makes another move towards copyrighted material.
"Intel only" Dell is #1 PC dealer in Q1 2001.
Ericsson to lay-off 12,000 staff.
P2P Filesharing platform "Gnutella" under attack.
AOL-Time Warner showing steady economy.
Nintendo Gamecube delayed till September 2001.
Widescreen iMac to replace the current model?
Apple makes profit again.
3DFX has now completed it's sale of it's core assets to nVidia.
Self-destruct mechanisms in HardDrives will deal with the security issues of lost lap-tops.

CHIP (CPUs, CHIP-SETs, MEMORY) Roundup
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A new evolving (FPGA) chip mutates into perfection?
Intel's 1.7GHz Pentium4 out on Monday at a record low $350?
AMD price cuts.
Intel price cuts.
25 nanometers etching now possible.
HP, the only company in the world that thinks Intel's Itanium is ahead of schedule?
TSMC targets 0.10um process for Q3 2002.
P4 RAMBUS mobos only from Intel?
"Old school" design tricks re-gaining their popularity.

Software Roundup
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Top selling game, "Black & White" developer sets records straight about claims of spy-ware.
No more service packs for WinNT.
More info about WinXP. Is this the "Big one" for Microsoft?
    ...and one more WinXP article...
Thorvalds misquoted about Mac OS X.

Misc Science Roundup (Astronomy & other)
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The first actual cyborg.
Reports of advances in single-electron devices come from Japan.
NASA to test scram-jet engines in May.